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Rules of Possibility: Constructing Design Systems

How do we define systems in which design is simultaneously dependent yet not predetermined? Can we work within that degree of freedom and produce a critical and coherent product? The Irving Innovation Fellowship provides a platform for the development of these research interests and their respective applicability to the studio-based design process. Rules of Possibility: Constructing Design Systems showcases research outcomes that target open-ended design questions driven by process rather than product. The framing, development, and application of these design systems are implemented through investigations in material intelligence and/or techniques of projective representation. The work addresses the structure of design thinking as it pertains to problems of fabrication, representation, cognition, and perception in architecture.